Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Société Athlétique


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   speedy delete. Fakes/hoaxes count as vandalism, this goes deleted. Tone 13:39, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

Société Athlétique

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''Finishing AfD nomination started by IP; their reasoning on the talk page of the article follows: ''

At least the part about the clothes company, but most probably the whole article, seems to be part of a "guerilla" marketing campaign. The company doesn't seem to produce anything yet, and that it does anything for charity is unproven, to say the least. But above all, I don't find convincing proof the Societe ever existed.

Entry of the company registry in Switzerland: http://www.moneyhouse.ch/u/societe_athletique_sa_CH-440.3.022.130-7.htm

Badly written pseudo-history: http://www.societeathletique.ch/

Fake documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Hp1LWWlpMk

An article of the same name was recently deleted from the german wikipedia as "fake". http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9_Athl%C3%A9tique Hairhorn (talk) 02:28, 15 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Speedy delete as viral advertising fake. Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 04:39, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete per lack of reliabale sourcing among others. Awickert (talk) 04:57, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete- The page should be deleted and returned by a willing author who can make this article encyclopedic. Also, this article does not meet the criteria for speedy deletion.keystoneridin! (talk) 05:18, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
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